83-81 and this was between two of the best NBA teams ? give me a break.The NBA has become unwatchable. This is the norm in NBA basketball. Both teams deserved to lose,both teams shot as well as my 5th grade girls team. What has happened to the NBA?? Players are so unskilled it hurts to watch them play. Players are all jacked up on steroids and HGH they are muscle bound hacks. Find me a John Havilchek or Jo Jo White in todays NBA,forget it they don't exsist.

The game has become a slow down one on one slug fest. Star ball rules the NBA, milk the clock and then give the ball to your star and watch him go one on one.

Give me the old fast break Lakers or Celtics anyday, I can't stand watching this crap. Did anyone notice the Indiana arena was half full, and half were C's fans. Indiana basketball fans would rather watch college ball anyday.

The NBA is nothing but bling, bright lights, showbiz and the game itself suffers. Watching the new NBA is like watching World Wrestling or Roller Derby.

83-81 and this was between two of the best NBA teams ? give me a break.The NBA has become unwatchable. This is the norm in NBA basketball. Both teams deserved to lose,both teams shot as well as my 5th grade girls team. What has happened to the NBA?? Players are so unskilled it hurts to watch them play. Players are all jacked up on steroids and HGH they are muscle bound hacks. Find me a John Havilchek or Jo Jo White in todays NBA,forget it they don't exsist.

The game has become a slow down one on one slug fest. Star ball rules the NBA, milk the clock and then give the ball to your star and watch him go one on one.

Give me the old fast break Lakers or Celtics anyday, I can't stand watching this crap. Did anyone notice the Indiana arena was half full, and half were C's fans. Indiana basketball fans would rather watch college ball anyday.

The NBA is nothing but bling, bright lights, showbiz and the game itself suffers. Watching the new NBA is like watching World Wrestling or Roller Derby.

I am done watching and most real basketball fans feal the same way.

Maybe Boston can beat the Hawks 78-74 next game how exciting !!!!

Take care Run

I am glad that you watched the game. The Celts need all the support that they can get.

That's great Run. I assume that means you are done posting here as well? If so congrats to you and great news for the rest of us.

It's sad you would post this after one of the best Celts wins of the season and I would urge everyone else in this forum to realize that this is a clear indication Run is not here as a genuine fan of the team but here to stir up whatever for god knows what reason.

Run just so you're clear, you do realize that the NBA offensive game has improved since Michael Jordan's heyday before the defensive hand-checking rules were changed right? It was during the Jordan and Pat Riley Knicks era this defensive style came into play.

I assume you boycotted the game then also?

Here's a history lesson for you since you dont have a grip: "Since 1990, the NBA has instituted a series of rules changes to increase the offensive player's flow and make physical play costly. First came increased penalties for flagrant fouls (1990) and fighting (1993), the implementation of the "five points" rule that called for automatic suspensions of players who amassed a certain number of flagrants (1993). Hand checking was eliminated in 1994. Using the forearm to defend players facing the basket went away in 1997."

"The rules changes did what they were supposed to do -- open up the game. Scoring average has increased from an average 95.6 points per game in the 1997-98 season to this year's 100 per game"

(this was from 2009 - here's the full article for you: http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/david_aldridge/04/22/aldridge.defenses/)

So the gist of it is: your opinions are factually incorrect, ignorant, and completely wrong.

I won't even get into why great defense is all about the kind of hustle EVERY TRUE FAN WANTS FROM THEIR TEAM...

That said, don't let that stop you from not watching the games you hate so much. We celebrate your realization that watching the NBA is not a good fit for your lifestyle. See ya!

83-81 and this was between two of the best NBA teams ? give me a break.The NBA has become unwatchable. This is the norm in NBA basketball. Both teams deserved to lose,both teams shot as well as my 5th grade girls team. What has happened to the NBA?? Players are so unskilled it hurts to watch them play. Players are all jacked up on steroids and HGH they are muscle bound hacks. Find me a John Havilchek or Jo Jo White in todays NBA,forget it they don't exsist.

The game has become a slow down one on one slug fest. Star ball rules the NBA, milk the clock and then give the ball to your star and watch him go one on one.

Give me the old fast break Lakers or Celtics anyday, I can't stand watching this crap. Did anyone notice the Indiana arena was half full, and half were C's fans. Indiana basketball fans would rather watch college ball anyday.

The NBA is nothing but bling, bright lights, showbiz and the game itself suffers. Watching the new NBA is like watching World Wrestling or Roller Derby.

I am done watching and most real basketball fans feal the same way.

Maybe Boston can beat the Hawks 78-74 next game how exciting !!!!

Take care Run

Agree with most of your post. The days of the Celtic fast break, the Knicks open man, the Lakers show time...well just dont see too much of that ...other than game winning shots, most every highlight on ESPN is a dunk. We still do get some decent pick n rolls in the game but now they usually end up as an ally-oop slam.

Many of these low scoring games are more a result of incompetence and poor offense as much as its defense. NBA chucks up so many 3 pointers that if your shot is off just slightly, forget about a friendly rim or touch, not from that far out.

I agree, turns boring... heck remember the Celtics game 7 loss vs Lakers? ever see such incompetence on offense in the 4th by the C's? Give me the Cowens/Hondo et al fast break game anyday, Stockton/Malone PnR etc...Game has evolved but not for the better imo

I mean I know they are really railing as their team flouders this year, after being the pre-season team to beat the heat.

anyhow........I actually prefer the NBA games where we had teams like Detriot with LAIMbeer and Mahorn beating the hell out of people.....but I just like physical play (makes me think they are earning their millions I guess).

That's great Run. I assume that means you are done posting here as well? If so congrats to you and great news for the rest of us.

It's sad you would post this after one of the best Celts wins of the season and I would urge everyone else in this forum to realize that this is a clear indication Run is not here as a genuine fan of the team but here to stir up whatever for god knows what reason.

Run just so you're clear, you do realize that the NBA offensive game has improved since Michael Jordan's heyday before the defensive hand-checking rules were changed right? It was during the Jordan and Pat Riley Knicks era this defensive style came into play.

I assume you boycotted the game then also?

Here's a history lesson for you since you dont have a grip: "Since 1990, the NBA has instituted a series of rules changes to increase the offensive player's flow and make physical play costly. First came increased penalties for flagrant fouls (1990) and fighting (1993), the implementation of the "five points" rule that called for automatic suspensions of players who amassed a certain number of flagrants (1993). Hand checking was eliminated in 1994. Using the forearm to defend players facing the basket went away in 1997."

"The rules changes did what they were supposed to do -- open up the game. Scoring average has increased from an average 95.6 points per game in the 1997-98 season to this year's 100 per game"

(this was from 2009 - here's the full article for you: http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/david_aldridge/04/22/aldridge.defenses/)

So the gist of it is: your opinions are factually incorrect, ignorant, and completely wrong.

I won't even get into why great defense is all about the kind of hustle EVERY TRUE FAN WANTS FROM THEIR TEAM...

That said, don't let that stop you from not watching the games you hate so much. We celebrate your realization that watching the NBA is not a good fit for your lifestyle. See ya!

Your picking dates from a bad period of NBA ball the 1990's saw the KNICKS Pistons and most teams slow the game down and almost killed the sport.

Do you remember the 1970-80's 120 point games,fast break ball,

Do you like watching games in the 70 and 80 point range ??

The NBA is dead for most pure basketball fans.Go put on your pink C's hat

83-81 and this was between two of the best NBA teams ? give me a break.The NBA has become unwatchable. This is the norm in NBA basketball. Both teams deserved to lose,both teams shot as well as my 5th grade girls team. What has happened to the NBA?? Players are so unskilled it hurts to watch them play. Players are all jacked up on steroids and HGH they are muscle bound hacks. Find me a John Havilchek or Jo Jo White in todays NBA,forget it they don't exsist.

The game has become a slow down one on one slug fest. Star ball rules the NBA, milk the clock and then give the ball to your star and watch him go one on one.

Give me the old fast break Lakers or Celtics anyday, I can't stand watching this crap. Did anyone notice the Indiana arena was half full, and half were C's fans. Indiana basketball fans would rather watch college ball anyday.

The NBA is nothing but bling, bright lights, showbiz and the game itself suffers. Watching the new NBA is like watching World Wrestling or Roller Derby.

I am done watching and most real basketball fans feal the same way.

Maybe Boston can beat the Hawks 78-74 next game how exciting !!!!

Take care Run

Let pause and remember the only player suspended for PED's was a Euro Turkaglu. It seems that the European need to watched closely what they are putting in their bodies.

83-81 and this was between two of the best NBA teams ? give me a break.The NBA has become unwatchable. This is the norm in NBA basketball. Both teams deserved to lose,both teams shot as well as my 5th grade girls team. What has happened to the NBA?? Players are so unskilled it hurts to watch them play. Players are all jacked up on steroids and HGH they are muscle bound hacks. Find me a John Havilchek or Jo Jo White in todays NBA,forget it they don't exsist.

The game has become a slow down one on one slug fest. Star ball rules the NBA, milk the clock and then give the ball to your star and watch him go one on one.

Give me the old fast break Lakers or Celtics anyday, I can't stand watching this crap. Did anyone notice the Indiana arena was half full, and half were C's fans. Indiana basketball fans would rather watch college ball anyday.

The NBA is nothing but bling, bright lights, showbiz and the game itself suffers. Watching the new NBA is like watching World Wrestling or Roller Derby.

I am done watching and most real basketball fans feal the same way.

Maybe Boston can beat the Hawks 78-74 next game how exciting !!!!

Take care Run

If its so unwatchable and you hate this team and the league, why in the world do you watch it? I don't watch programs on TV that I don't like, but thats just me.

83-81 and this was between two of the best NBA teams ? give me a break.The NBA has become unwatchable. This is the norm in NBA basketball. Both teams deserved to lose,both teams shot as well as my 5th grade girls team. What has happened to the NBA?? Players are so unskilled it hurts to watch them play. Players are all jacked up on steroids and HGH they are muscle bound hacks. Find me a John Havilchek or Jo Jo White in todays NBA,forget it they don't exsist.

The game has become a slow down one on one slug fest. Star ball rules the NBA, milk the clock and then give the ball to your star and watch him go one on one.

Give me the old fast break Lakers or Celtics anyday, I can't stand watching this crap. Did anyone notice the Indiana arena was half full, and half were C's fans. Indiana basketball fans would rather watch college ball anyday.

The NBA is nothing but bling, bright lights, showbiz and the game itself suffers. Watching the new NBA is like watching World Wrestling or Roller Derby.

I am done watching and most real basketball fans feal the same way.

Maybe Boston can beat the Hawks 78-74 next game how exciting !!!!

Take care Run

If its so unwatchable and you hate this team and the league, why in the world do you watch it? I don't watch programs on TV that I don't like, but thats just me.

Watching the NBA is like watching a car accident,everyone rubber necks but nobody admits wanting to see one.

A little off topic here, but I wouldn't call today's game "unwatchable." I love watching the games. For me, though, they have become unlistenable, if that's even a word. I use to brag to folks (before the C's moved to their new digs) that the Garden was the only place in the NBA where there was no organ or recorded hype up the atmosphere noise during play. I want to hear the sound of squeaking high tops and players shouting, not synthesizers. I also cannot tolerate color analysts talking ad nauseum about the last play through the live action (see, e.g., Hubie Brown et al) or talking about something that has nothing to do with what's going on on the court (see, e.g., just about everyone). I have taken to watching a lot of games with the sound off. And I bring ear plugs to all games - pro, college or high school - to muffle the amped up timeouts music which is usually ear shattering.

83-81 and this was between two of the best NBA teams ? give me a break.The NBA has become unwatchable. This is the norm in NBA basketball. Both teams deserved to lose,both teams shot as well as my 5th grade girls team. What has happened to the NBA?? Players are so unskilled it hurts to watch them play. Players are all jacked up on steroids and HGH they are muscle bound hacks. Find me a John Havilchek or Jo Jo White in todays NBA,forget it they don't exsist.

The game has become a slow down one on one slug fest. Star ball rules the NBA, milk the clock and then give the ball to your star and watch him go one on one.

Give me the old fast break Lakers or Celtics anyday, I can't stand watching this crap. Did anyone notice the Indiana arena was half full, and half were C's fans. Indiana basketball fans would rather watch college ball anyday.

The NBA is nothing but bling, bright lights, showbiz and the game itself suffers. Watching the new NBA is like watching World Wrestling or Roller Derby.

I am done watching and most real basketball fans feal the same way.

Maybe Boston can beat the Hawks 78-74 next game how exciting !!!!

Take care Run

Hey Run-your-mouth, you are soooooooo transparent. C's are rollin' and your just trollllin! Run-away now....like you always do!

83-81 and this was between two of the best NBA teams ? give me a break.The NBA has become unwatchable. This is the norm in NBA basketball. Both teams deserved to lose,both teams shot as well as my 5th grade girls team. What has happened to the NBA?? Players are so unskilled it hurts to watch them play. Players are all jacked up on steroids and HGH they are muscle bound hacks. Find me a John Havilchek or Jo Jo White in todays NBA,forget it they don't exsist.

The game has become a slow down one on one slug fest. Star ball rules the NBA, milk the clock and then give the ball to your star and watch him go one on one.

Give me the old fast break Lakers or Celtics anyday, I can't stand watching this crap. Did anyone notice the Indiana arena was half full, and half were C's fans. Indiana basketball fans would rather watch college ball anyday.

The NBA is nothing but bling, bright lights, showbiz and the game itself suffers. Watching the new NBA is like watching World Wrestling or Roller Derby.

I am done watching and most real basketball fans feal the same way.

Maybe Boston can beat the Hawks 78-74 next game how exciting !!!!

Take care Run

If its so unwatchable and you hate this team and the league, why in the world do you watch it? I don't watch programs on TV that I don't like, but thats just me.

Watching the NBA is like watching a car accident,everyone rubber necks but nobody admits wanting to see one.

I love basketball and hate seeing what has become of the game.

The league needs to change or die.

Run

The league is more popular than ever

multiple MULTIPLE fastbeaks were run in last nights game (you blind?)

again, if you hate it don't watch, the NBA will not change to the mostly white better fundamental, less glitz and star NBA of the 50's and 60's

So an old fool like you will die long before the modern games changes and the league will NEVEr die

83-81 and this was between two of the best NBA teams ? give me a break.The NBA has become unwatchable. This is the norm in NBA basketball. Both teams deserved to lose,both teams shot as well as my 5th grade girls team. What has happened to the NBA?? Players are so unskilled it hurts to watch them play. Players are all jacked up on steroids and HGH they are muscle bound hacks. Find me a John Havilchek or Jo Jo White in todays NBA,forget it they don't exsist.

The game has become a slow down one on one slug fest. Star ball rules the NBA, milk the clock and then give the ball to your star and watch him go one on one.

Give me the old fast break Lakers or Celtics anyday, I can't stand watching this crap. Did anyone notice the Indiana arena was half full, and half were C's fans. Indiana basketball fans would rather watch college ball anyday.

The NBA is nothing but bling, bright lights, showbiz and the game itself suffers. Watching the new NBA is like watching World Wrestling or Roller Derby.

I am done watching and most real basketball fans feal the same way.

Maybe Boston can beat the Hawks 78-74 next game how exciting !!!!

Take care Run

You're just mad because you're 1-2 in your predictions for the final leg of the season.

Then don't watch you ignorant old racist... as they say 'if its too loud, you're too old'

The game, like life, has passed you by. You belong in the segregated 1950's south...

i think most people over the age of 35-38 do not find the "new" nba very interesting. i used to rummage up some desire to root for underdog teams like the clippers, golden state or whoever it was any given year once the celts were done for.

the game is really at a cross roads of nothingness. free agency and overpaying people mixed with no team loyalty make this a transient game of under-educated people who tend to not invest as much in their team as the 1980s type of ball.

can anyone really sit here on this board and say that you like the new nba better than the 1980s and early 1990s? honestly, you need to watch some of what it used to be like. it was fun. there were real rivalries, there were no gang signs being flashed. players were not painted with graffiti tatoos and there was no hooting like an unsavory creature from the forest once you do something as remedial as dunk the ball.

back in the old days larry bird was the renowned biggest trash talker in the game. he got into more dudes' heads than anyone. but he did it quietly. it was tactful yet effective. brutally effective. nowadays not so much. no tact and no class. the games tend to be slow, attendance is way down. it's kind of like the nba of the 70s that was struggling for life, only we already have the "doctor J" who was supposed to revive the league when he came over from the ABA. lebron james is already here. and nobody likes him. he's a petty loser-type personality who spent years in the league being a thin skinned narcissist and now that he finally has three stars on a team at a relatively young age, he can win.

it's just not what it used to be. i'm done after this season. the joy is gone out of watching ALL professional sports. a team can be down by 21 in the NFL and someone makes a tackle and then proceeds to have a big celebration. you're down 21, shut the hell up and get back to the line! it's the same in the nba now- block a shot when you're down 20 and pound your chest and make some noises. or better yet, take a bad shot and then argue with the refs instead of getting back on D